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Race: How Blacks & Whites Think & Feel About the American Obsession.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.

That was a big deal at the time, because no blacks were integrated with whites in anything - not in sports, basketball, football, nothing.

This group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the back of theatres.

They tout the belief that if blacks want to succeed in this country, there is only one path: reliance on the government.

Almost all the job opportunities were reflective of the stereotypical perception of blacks that had infected the whole consciousness of the country.

A lot of whites thought there would not be another white mayor. And blacks thought there always would be a black mayor. Now they are starting to rethink their position.

You can't hire blacks if there's not a pool of black recruits to choose from.

there was no limit to how high blacks could rise in my administration.

There remains a degree of anti-black intellectualism in entertainment. Middle and upper-middle class blacks have often been portrayed as buffoons in popular culture; witness the characters of Carlton Banks on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' and Braxton P. Hartnabrig on 'The Jamie Foxx Show.'

The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.

At Boca Raton, when I got down there, they didn't segregate us - until they saw some other blacks - then they put the blacks in the rooms together.

It was the first time black and white ever played together and at that time there were no blacks and whites associating together.

It was the first time whites and blacks had ever played for the city championship.

It's not surprising. A lot of blacks didn't get to go to school. They were kept from being educated. It hasn't been a question of talent, it's been a question of opportunity.

It's the ultimate universally engaging play, ... It was important to have 20-year-olds and 80-year-olds in the audience, to have blacks and whites in the audience.

It's been a difficult series but we didn't give up. If you look at the series as a whole we weren't the better team. The All Blacks deserved it.

The North was not heaven, but it was free of the most obvious violence stemming from racism. Blacks were allowed to vote and this gave them opportunities to build black banks and business communities and this contributed to opportunities for education.

The numbers for blacks have remained pretty flat over the past decades.

Even when there's no natural disaster Blacks have lived the closest (to these facilities),

Ebony and Jet increased the visibility of blacks and said that there is a diversity of experience in the black community. Not everyone is poor, and there are celebrities.

The black vote used to be heavily concentrated. Large numbers of blacks that were identifiable and reachable, in public housing. Much of that has been taken down, virtually none of it is being used.

still has an opportunity to reach out to blacks during the reconstruction, giving the displaced people a role in the project. But there is a problem. Already, he has made some mistakes. No-bid contracts are going to firms with close ties to Bush, and those don't tend to be minority-owned businesses.

It's very unfortunate, because it really is the civil rights issue of this decade, ... We know if you're not counted, you're not represented, and apparently some members of the Republican leadership don't want to count poor blacks and latinos.

Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages, customs, colors and culinary habits lived so amicably together. Although New York remains peaceful by most standards, this self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks (and latterly the Puerto Ricans) to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums.

So do I think a guy should be reprimanded or fired for saying blacks are faster? No. I think we've definitely come a long away from the attitudes in place a generation or two ago. But do I think that coach needs to have a conversation, have somebody pull him aside and explain that it's still a very sensitive subject? Absolutely.

In all three matches we have lacked the killer instinct which both the All Blacks and England possess.

If we beat the All Blacks on Saturday it must come close to the achievement of winning a World Cup.

If you look at 1916 to 1948, blacks are moving. That's the heyday of jazz in terms of popular culture.

In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were.

In Rikers, you had the Italians over here, the Spanish over here, the Blacks here, then there would be your Christians here and your Muslim brotherhood here. It's just like the outside, but in very closed quarters where you have to get along or else. The sense of claustrophobia in 'Orange is the New Black' - that's real.

In other words, the fundamental values (freedom, justice, equality of rights) began to be respected by France and the United States in the 1950s-1960s, after decolonization and assuring civil equality between Blacks and Whites.

(In these films) the blacks establish their worthiness only by serving white men. The screen image of the Zulu obscures and overwhelms the reality.

If you take an ordinary daily vitamin, do you get enough to make up for your skin tone? Probably yes. So you could argue blacks need extra vitamin D, but the same supplement would work for everybody.

In order to get large numbers of blacks back into New Orleans would require huge amounts of money.

His experience as a winning captain in international rugby with the All Blacks and as a winning captain in both the Super 12 and NPC with Canterbury will be invaluable to our squad.

But why immediately link blacks and crime. Bennett told me on the phone that race was on his mind because of recent stories in the media about New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

He's fair. Look at the way he treats people. Look at some of the guys that are here and have come through here. He gives guys opportunities where in other places they had been shunned. He wipes the slate and blacks the board and judges you on what you do here.

Howard is still a great school. But many of the great faculty members that would be at Howard today are now at Harvard and Yale and Princeton. All this comes as a consequence of affirmative action and the admissions policies that encouraged blacks to enroll in the Ivy League schools.

He's (McKie) not going to wave a magic wand and find a loose-head prop that's going to demolish the All Blacks or pull out a winger that will put Rockokoko to shame. That's not his role. There is no quick fix,

I don't mean to offend, ... but whites just didn't see that blacks should be included in the history.

These horrible e-mails, just horrible, ... They were from both blacks and whites from there in the United States, only the United States, criticizing Aruba and how they planned to never set foot on Aruba ever again ... because of the cruelty against these two security guards, how it was so obvious to anyone around the world ... that this was discrimination.

These guys went home and called their brothers from Kansas City (Missouri). Their brothers got in contact with us and several other blacks in Missouri, and they said, 'You guys run like you normally do down this certain street, and we're going to be waiting and put a stop to all this.

All we did was attend a precinct meeting and took part in the process. The next thing you know, a few more blacks started taking part in the process.

The first part of the civil war was really fought between white people. The second part of the civil war was the Civil Rights Movement, fought between blacks and the greater establishment.

The fight had every element I cared about. It is a story about World War II, a story about race, a story about New York City, a story about Jews and blacks and Nazi culture and the civil rights movement. I was absolutely amazed no one had done a book on it.

The circumstances are remarkable when you stop to think about what you couldn't do in Raleigh and in Richmond. After 1831, they didn't want blacks to learn the ABCs. She put those boys in school,

Among younger blacks there is a consistent attraction to private accounts and we have seen it for some time.

'The Martin Show,' the 'Jamie Foxx show,' 'Living Single,' 'The Wayans Brothers,' 'Hanging with Mr. Cooper...' Some of these shows were good, some were typical television, but they facilitated a lot of work for blacks in front of as well as behind the camera. A lot of us in Hollywood thought it was the beginning of a real racial breakthrough.

The laws were different here. Blacks had a lot more freedom to own businesses and property. Free people of color could come here seeking opportunity.

The laws that once limited one's marriage partner on the basis of race were designed to build walls and keep blacks and whites apart. But preserving the traditional definition of marriage brings men and women together.

The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic.

The legacy of mistrust between blacks and whites is a substantial hurdle to overcome that should not be underestimated. Many members of both groups will be innately suspicious of attempts by an outsider to approach them, especially in the context of ministry.

Never forget that two blacks do not make a white.

Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.

Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, (and) rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids,

It was apparent on the first day that blacks were disproportionately impacted, and I felt it was important to help frame how we think about that issue, ... I was outraged and heartbroken by what happened and felt anxious. I felt like I needed to do something.

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.